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  • English Word Labiums Definition of Labium
  • English Word Lablab Definition an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).
  • English Word Labor Definition To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
  • English Word Labor Definition To belabor; to beat.
  • English Word Labor Definition To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
  • English Word Labor Definition To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
  • English Word Labor Definition To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
  • English Word Labor Definition To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  • English Word Labor Definition To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
  • English Word Labor Definition To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
  • English Word Labor Definition A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
  • English Word Labor Definition The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  • English Word Labor Definition Any pang or distress.
  • English Word Labor Definition Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
  • English Word Labor Definition That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  • English Word Labor Definition To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
  • English Word Labor Definition Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
  • English Word Labor Definition Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
  • English Word Labor-saving Definition Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.
  • English Word Laborant Definition A chemist.
  • English Word Laboratories Definition of Laboratory
  • English Word Laboratory Definition The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
  • English Word Labored Definition Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
  • English Word Labored Definition of Labor
  • English Word Laboredly Definition In a labored manner; with labor.
  • English Word Laborer Definition One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
  • English Word Laboring Definition That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
  • English Word Laboring Definition Suffering pain or grief.
  • English Word Laboring Definition of Labor
  • English Word Laborious Definition Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.